Re: lua_State and garbage collection

[Petter Rønningen <tankefugl@...>]

Awesome, that sounds perfect. Thanks a lot.

- Petter Rønningen

On 7/16/05, Ben Sunshine-Hill <sneftel@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're just keeping all the threads around in the C stack of the main
> thread? That'll work, I suppose, but is not the best way to keep a
> reference around. Use luaL_ref to get an integer reference to the
> thread, and pop it off the stack. Store the references in your
> std::map<float, int>, and access the threads using luaL_getref. When
> you're ready to forget about a thread, just use luaL_unref; since it's
> the only remaining reference to the thread, the GC will handle the
> rest.
> 
> Ben
>